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Chapter VII
Sanctions

Respice finem. The end of action being thus defined, that end must be steadily
kept in view, & the next no Inquiry is can be more important than as to the most efficient
means of promoting that end. Those means bear are present themselves in the shape in other
words, motives or sanctions – of the inducements which operate on conduct. They bring conduct &
its consequences into the regions of hopes & fears – of hopes which
present a balance of pleasure, of fears which anticipate a balance of pain. These inducements may be conveniently called sanctions.

The strength of a temptation to a misdeed is in the ratio
of the excess of the pleasure of the misdeed (as it stands in the
idea of the person tempted) above the intensity of the pain
which is to follow as compounded with its apparent
proximity & probability

Sanctions as has been said are inducements to action. They suppose the existence of
temptations. Temptations are the evil, – sanctions the remedy. But
neither are sanctions nor temptations any thing but pains & pleasures
acting singly in the case of temptations, – acting as sanctions in groups.

But in order that a sanction should exercise its influence
it is not necessary that a man should be conscious of that influence
the existence of that the inducement, as Balaam was stopped by the
power of an angel that was invisible to him.

There are Cases there are where necessity is & must be admitted as
an excuse for conduct: cases which are thus taken out of the ordinary rules. This reason is only when investigated excuse when thoroughly sifted will be found to be a
confession of the inefficiency of punishment to prevent such conduct.
The ground bar not been inefficiency of punishment has been seldom alleged by moralists or legislators as the reason why certain actions cannot be preventedcontrolled
but it is the only true & tenable ground, – it it the real, – but unperceived
cause of the influence of necessity. Why did in such a case did
a man decide on a given action. He felt a repugnancy to doing
otherwise – he could not resist the despotism of the repugnancy –
he could not even explain its cause – a common case. What then?
No punishment was near enough & great enough to restrain him.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	189	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	chapter vii sanctions
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j rump 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer	ann elizabeth lind; franz ludwig tribolet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
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